.50 cent raise while other "Head" spots get "significant" raises (in Kroger terms of course), all while having to order (Milk and eggs being especially a pain in the ass at times), make schedules and constantly be the #1 contact for management to harp on.
Closely followed by co-managers or they might even be worse in some stores...Only reason I put them below dairy leads is because the pay is actually half decent... only downside being you are salaried (pretty much guaranteed to work 50+ hours week, no questions asked)
Then Produce because it is the first department customers will see in many stores and if it doesn't look like something straight out of a magazine, management and corporate thinks the department heads are not doing their jobs.
Interesting, I worked grocery night shift before and it was a cakewalk. I did frozen foods and it was extremely laid back, if anyone ever forgot something or an area looked like ****, they would always leave before the store manager got there and nothing was ever said to them...varies store to store I suppose.
Grocery manager has it the worse. They are extremely understaffed in most stores, have the most to do and get treated the worse because they are not in there all day to suck up to the store manager.
Front end manager probably second because they have to do all the customer service, HR, timekeeping, money handling and have the most people they are responsible for and a lot of kids.
grocery night crew. being expected to run 1500+ piece pallets and back stock at the same time on a skeleton crew, having to condition a vast majority of the store's items, being harped on to go fast and be robotic in your work, but worst of all in my opinion is that management doesn't think you do $h1t for the entire night, even though you bust your butt on a daily basis replenishing all the shelves.
when it comes to the physical amount of work a department has to do, I'd go with grocery as #1. Front end can always rely on us to come get them caught up. Produce, meat, deli seem to do just fine and always have plenty of people working (in my store at least), but in my store there's usually 1 or 2 guys having to do the grocery truck. Then the night guy has to finish that and do sodas, displays, etc while being at the front end's beck and call. Frozen needs help? Dairy guy is behind on his truck? better borrow someone from grocery. I know those are sub departments, but we're already thin as it is without having to spread our help out among FE, frozen, dairy.
Hard to say grocery crew at my store. Most of the crew takes a smoke break every hour on the hour, and what they dint finishbour managers work. Hell the grocery manager barely runs product. I'd say Dairy has it hardest because more often then not they have to pick up the slack of the grocery department. Produce is also tough in our store since it's at the front and the first impression of the store. Aside from those, most departments are cakewalks.
every position gets screwed over at krogurrs, it's the name of the game. i'd have to say grocery or front end get the shorter end of the stick. grocery sucks because you have to do heavy lifting and stock/condition the biggest department. front end sucks because you have to be in the customer service lion's den and deal with extreme turnover. in the front end it seems that they all get pretty bad hours besides the full timers, and even then sometimes they get cut as well. it's hard to say who gets screwed the hardest, but those are the two departments i've had first hand experience with.
